Stories

Atlanta History Center is home to four honey bee colonies named after real-life women who created a lot of buzz in Atlanta history––Selena Sloan Butler, Frances Newman, Shirley Franklin, and Coretta Scott KingAtlanta History Center is home to four honey bee colonies named after real-life women who created a lot of buzz in Atlanta history––Selena Sloan Butler, Frances Newman, Shirley Franklin, and Coretta Scott King

Delve into Hollywood’s portrayal of the South and its cultural impact with this list of highly impactful films that worked to critique, contextualize, or convolute the South’s complicated history.

Though the story of the Atlanta Crackers is well-known, for years, the story of the Atlanta Black Crackers was largely untold.

This summer, along with history and civics organizations across the country, we invite you to join in a program dedicated to the Civic Season.

From providing aid near battlefields to serving on the frontlines of a public health crisis, the Red Cross is constantly adapting to the community’s needs.

In 1962, Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. ordered the construction of a barricade served to sever the main line connecting the white and Black sections of the Cascade Heights neighborhood.

Yann and Mareth Mak escaped Cambodia with their eight children arriving in Atlanta in October 1981 to get away from genocide carried out by Khmer Rouge.

For more than fifty years, Ethel Mae Matthews worked tirelessly for greater welfare rights for Atlanta’s poor and disabled.

Atlanta’s Paralympic Games represent many significant benchmarks for Paralympic and disability history.

One way Atlanta History Center works to fulfill our mission of connecting people and culture with history is by serving as a headquarters for Fulton County 4-H.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the African American struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years following the Civil War.

While each person on the Private Events staff is an integral part of the team’s overall success, there is one person who everyone unanimously considers their mentor.

In advance of the 1996 Olympic Games, organizers in Atlanta worked to harness the power of new technologies to showcase the city as cutting edge and progressive—just as many host cities before them had done.

One of the 1996 Olympic Games’ polarizing feat of technology and design was the ‘96 Games’ mascot: Izzy.